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|accepted_name=Trillium discolor
|accepted_authority=T. Wray ex Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Mag.
|place=58: plate 3097. 1831
|year=1831
}}
|common_names=Pale yellow trillium;small yellow toadshade
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Trillium;Trillium subg. Phyllantherum;Trillium discolor
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Trillium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Trillium subg. Phyllantherum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Trillium discolor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 95
|treatment_page=page 109
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>horizontal, brownish, short or somewhat compressed-thickened, bulblike, praemorse, not brittle. <b>Scapes</b> 1–2, 1–2.2 dm, slender, essentially glabrous. <b>Bracts</b> held well above ground, sessile; blade mottled dark green over lighter green, mottling fading or blurring with time, ovate, elliptic to almost circular, 6–13 × 4–7 cm, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Flower</b> erect, odor faintly pleasant, resembling sweetshrub (<i>Calycanthus</i> sp.); sepals displayed above bracts, spreading, green, oblong-lanceolate, shorter than petals, 20–30 × 7–19 mm, margins entire, apex acute; petals long-lasting, erect, ± connivent, ± concealing stamens and ovary to spreading distally, soft pale sulfur-yellow, fading to ± cream, sometimes slightly spirally twisted, widely spatulate, clawed basally, 2.2–5 × 0.9–1.5 cm, thick-textured, margins entire, often upraised adaxially, at least 1 petal with apex strongly apiculate, nipplelike, others with apex apiculate-acuminate; claw green, sometimes obscurely marked or mottled with purple, broadly cuneate; stamens incurved-erect, 8–15 mm; filaments purple, 1–2.5 mm; anthers erect, straight or arcuate, brown, 6.5–14 mm, dehiscence introrse-latrorse; connectives straight, extending 1–2 mm beyond anthers; ovary purplish, ovoid, 6-ridged, 2.5–8.5 mm; stigmas divergent to erect, distinct, purplish white, subulate, short, 2–6 mm, ± fleshy. <b>Fruits</b> baccate, greenish white, subglobose, weakly 6-winged, 1–5 × 1 cm, pulpy or mealy, not juicy. <b>2n</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (mid Apr–early May).
|habitat=Rather acidic to clearly circumneutral or basic soils of mixed deciduous forests, often under oaks, near Rhododendron thickets, or near tangles of Leucothoë on moist stream banks, slopes near streams
|elevation=100–200 m
|distribution=Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Trillium discolor</i> occurs only in the upper drainage of the Savannah River, but it is locally frequent within its limited range.</p>
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name=Trillium discolor
|author=
|authority=T. Wray ex Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (mid Apr–early May).
|habitat=Rather acidic to clearly circumneutral or basic soils of mixed deciduous forests, often under oaks, near Rhododendron thickets, or near tangles of Leucothoë on moist stream banks, slopes near streams
|elevation=100–200 m
|distribution=Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Mag.
|publication year=1831
|special status=
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|genus=Trillium
|subgenus=Trillium subg. Phyllantherum
|species=Trillium discolor
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